Arms Control And Defense Postures In The 1980s

Politics & Social Sciences

Burt, Richard

Politics & Government

Routledge

A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to become the court censor himself, Ben Jonson embodies the contradictions and complexities of theater censorship in the early Stuart period. Focusing on Jonson's writings and the political vicissitudes of his career, Richard Burt offers a provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and Caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture.
Informed by the writings of Foucault and Bourdieu, Licensed by Authority historicizes censorship, arguing that it was less a matter of denying dramatists liberty of speech than a network of productive strategies for legitimating and delegitimating specific discursive practices. Burt draws on a rich body of archival and literary evidence, including plays by Shakespeare and by Jonson's Caroline contemporaries, in order to demonstrate that censorship was nurtured and sustained not only by a culturally diverse Stuart court but also by the playwrights themselves, along with theatrical entrepreneurs, printers, poets, and critics.

Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Cornell University Press

The "new" censorship of the arts, some cultural critics say, is just one more item on the "new" Right's agenda, of a piece with attempts to regulate sexuality, curtail female reproductive rights, restrict gays and lesbians, and privatize public institutions. While not contesting this assessment, the writers gathered here expose crucial difficulties in using censorship, old and new, as a tool for cultural criticism. Focusing on historical moments ranging from early-modern Europe to postmodern American, and covering a variety of media from books and paintings to film and photography, their essays seek a deeper understanding of what "censorship", "criticism" and the "public sphere" really mean. Getting rid of the censor, the contributors suggest, does not get rid of the problem of censorship. In varied but complementary ways, their essays view censorship as something more than a negative, unified institutional practice used to repress certain discourses. Instead, the authors contend that censorship actually legitimates discourses - not only by allowing them to circulate, but by joining them in a sort of performance, a staging of oppositions. These essays move discussions of censorship out of the present discourse of diversity into what might be called a discourse of legitimation. In doing so, they open up the possibility of realignments between those who are disenchanted with both stereotypical right-wing criticisms of political critics and aesthetics, and stereotypical left-wing defences. Richard Burt is the author of "Licensed By Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship".

Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere (Volume 7) (Studies in Classical Philology)

Social Sciences

Univ. of Minnesota Press

History & Criticism

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Arms Control and Defense Postures in the 1980s

Westview Press

Housed in the Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum, the AJ Smith Collection is one of the finest and most extensive collections of Lund's Bristol and early Worcester Porcelain. It charts the development of the first two viable porcelain factories outside London. Although Lund's china house in Bristol was short-lived, ownership of his soaprock recipe passed up the Severn to Dr. Wall's factory in Worcester which recently celebrated over 250 years of continuous production. In this specially commissioned, groundbreaking study Simon Spero analyzes for the first time the contents of this remarkable collection and presents a detailed breakdown of the different shapes and types of decoration. Particular care is given to the conclusions that can be drawn about the commercial strategy employed by the two enterprises in seeking to establish a niche in a fiercely competitive and volatile market. Two chapters by Richard Burt focus upon the socioeconomic and political context in which the two factories were creat

Lund's Bristol And Early Worcester Porcelain 1750-58: The A.j. Smith Collection

SPERO, Simon

Reference

Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd

Deutschland und Amerika: Partner für eine Welt im Wandel

Busse Seewald

Discovering A Lost Vineyard House: The Archaeology and History of the John and Experience Mayhew House Site on Martha's Vineyard

History

Richardson, James

Americas

Independently published

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